Water Dog wrote:My understanding is he wasn't an outlier at all... everybody regarded the indians as tribal??
This.
I wonder why the authors of this paper went out of their way to ignore the more obvious reason for Smith’s word choice?
Water Dog wrote:My understanding is he wasn't an outlier at all... everybody regarded the indians as tribal??
Lemmie wrote:Now back to basketball
Meadowchick wrote:Controls are used to compare results of a hypothesis applied to known variables, to see the difference between those results and the results of applying the hypothesis to unknown variables, right?
Physic's Guy wrote:Then, once they had hammered out such a good list of questions for comparing societies in general, they could have applied it to the special case of the Book of Mormon society and the Mayans. If these authors had done this, then it seems to me that their Bayesian result would have been meaningful. Am I right about that, as being what it would take to do this analysis right?
Symmachus wrote:Congratulations to the historicists! They've got a real win with this one, and we can now rest easy with the mathematically certain knowledge the Book of Mormon is historical, and all that follows from that proposition true.
Of course, Bayes's theorem, according to some of its fervent practitioners who are also historians, has shown that Jesus is not historical but rather a mythical figure like Hercules. So the problem these geniuses now have is: how to make sense of a mythical Jesus in a historical Book of Mormon. That's a tough one.
via Imgflip Meme Generator
Start of the Cambrian Era
A pond of chemicals has formed on the Pre-Cambrian earth. Protein molecules form. Protein molecules combine. Enough protein molecules combine to form the Book of Mormon.
PG wrote:Something that might be the most basic error in this paper was raised by JarMan at the other board. He pointed out that most of the features scored as "hit" common features to Maya and Book of Mormon societies are in fact common features of most ancient societies.